A pregnant mother of two and her family were denied passage on a cruise ship departing Florida at the last minute. (ksla.com)

Royal Caribbean International has taken out the prestigious award for Best Cruise Operator – Australian Based Operation at the 2014 National Travel Industry Awards. (australia.etbnews.com)

Royal Caribbean International said it is changing the way how people plan their holiday by working with Google to be the first cruise line to launch Google Maps Business View using Google’s Street View technology onboard the Allure of the Seas. (cruisebusiness.com)

SinglesCruise.com, America’s leading singles cruise organization, and Match.com, the world’s largest online dating site, have announced a blockbuster partnership. (travelpulse.com)

Shekhar Grover of Royal Caribbean International has been crowned Diageo Global Travel best cruise line bartender at a final held last night (June 12) in Miami. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The cutting-edge entertainment on the new Quantum of the Seas will feature robotic video screens, aerialists, a mammoth harp with strings stretching across the theater — and extra fees? (travelpulse.com)

Entertainment on Quantum of the Seas will be the “complete package deal,” similar to what you’d find in Las Vegas, said ship godmother Kristin Chenoweth during a live Google Hangout broadcast from the Bellagio hotel there. (cruisecritic.com)

Vacationers can enjoy even greater value when they book select cruises that set sail as early as August 2014. (travelpulse.com)

South India is now a major destination for Royal Caribbean Cruise to attract passengers to board its ships to be deployed in Singapore. (thehindubusinessline.com)

Royal Caribbean is recognizing that “Travel Agents Making the WOW Go ‘Round” and declaring the week of June 9th as Royal Caribbean Travel Agent Appreciation Week. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Royal Caribbean International announced Quantum of the Seas’ godmother, Kristin Chenoweth, has been named Quantum experience advisor for entertainment. (travelagentcentral.com)

Families can get into the swing of summer with a Royal Caribbean International vacation and taking advantage of the cruise line’s first WOW Sale of the year, starting June 1, 2014. (outtoseatravel.blogspot.it)

A 6-year-old boy is in serious condition after nearly drowning in a pool on Royal Caribbean’s Independence of the Seas yesterday, reviving the issue of whether or not cruise ships should add lifeguards to all onboard pools. (cruisecritic.com)

The 150,000-tonne Independence of the Seas was stopped in the town of Alesund because Royal Carribean, the ship’s owner, didn’t pay its 2013 fees. (bbc.com)

A cruise ship passenger was taken to a Miami hospital after suffering a head injury while on-board a Royal Caribbean ship late Wednesday. (nbcmiami.com)

Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas will sail a whopper of a journey when it spends 53 nights at sea between its first homeport of New York City and Shanghai, its new homeport. (cruisecritic.com)

Royal Caribbean International announced a partnership with Coca-Cola to bring the excitement of the most prestigious soccer competition in the world to its fleet. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Excited travelers can choose from any six-night or longer sailing departing to the Caribbean and Bahamas between July 1 and December 31, 2014. (travelandtourworld.com)

Royal Caribbean International announced Legend of the Seas’ year-round deployment for 2015-16, offering itineraries to breathtakingly beautiful destinations throughout Southeast Asia. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Royal Caribbean is offering travelers the chance to save 50 percent off a second guest on 2015-2016 sailings. (travelagentcentral.com)

Jamie Oliver said he was in shock — “nice shock” — when Royal Caribbean approached him to open a restaurant onboard its newest ships and said he had “never, ever dreamt of opening a restaurant on the high seas”. (cruisecritic.com)

Cruise Dreams, was recently selected to organize yet another Square Dance Cruise for the popular caller Jay Krebs, after a highly successful cruise in February of this year.

As Cruise Critic reported yesterday, Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas, which will make its debut in Bayonne in November, will only be stationed there for six months before redeploying to Shanghai. (cruisecritic.com)

Royal Caribbean announced its 2015-16 year-round sailings from the New York-metropolitan area and Galveston, Texas, and seasonal sailings from Tampa and Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (allthingscruise.com)